Items fly by

Items fly by

[erik burggraaf]

Hi list.  I'm using the locate command to find some diagnostic software and
potencial mount points for basic hardware like a floppy drive or a modem.  I
can find what I want no problem, but I also get a lot of things I don't
want.  Sometimes screens after screens.  The screens scroll automaticly, and
I wonder if there's a way to change this.  Failing that, is there a way to
get at the items at the top of the list without doing a locate and listening
to the whole thing over.  I've done this 4 or 5 times, and it's starting to
be counter productive.  I think if I could just stop the scroll where I
wanted and review the lines I'm interested in, I'd be a little more
effective.
Thanks for any advice.
Erik


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Re: Items fly by

[Kirk Reiser]

Hi Eric:  Under Linux you can pipe the output of any command through a
pipe to another program.  In this case you want to pipe your programs
output to 'more' or 'less' which will page the output to you:

program-to-pipe | more

That's should do it.

  Kirk

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Re: Items fly by

[Steve Holmes]

Another couple ideas come to mind.  When piping stuff to less, very
often, you need to include the output from STDERR into the pipe also.
Simply |less will only capture output from STDOUT so I often will do
<command> 2>&1 |less
thus standard output and standard error (1 and 2 respectively) both
get piped into less, my pager of choice.  Once in less, you can scroll
up and down through the text and do searches and whatever else you
want.

Another neat trick is to use the script facility.  Type script and hit
enter; that will spawn a sub shell and leave you at a shell prompt but
from here on until you close this shell, all output will be recorded
in a file called by default 'typescript'.  When done, type exit to
close this sub shell and the typescript file will then be closed and
available for viewing.  Do a 'man script' for more details.

On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 11:56:17AM -0400, Kirk Reiser wrote:
> Hi Eric:  Under Linux you can pipe the output of any command through a
> pipe to another program.  In this case you want to pipe your programs
> output to 'more' or 'less' which will page the output to you:
> 
> program-to-pipe | more
> 
> That's should do it.
> 
>   Kirk
> 
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Re: Items fly by

[Thomas Stivers]

Pipe commands that scroll through more or less. for example on my system
this produces miles of output all in pages.
slocate *.mp3 |less
Thats the secret of *nix, many small utility programs, not setting
scrolling settings and the like in each program. Oh yeah slocate is
basically the same as locate.

On 10/20/02 11:49 AM -0400, erik burggraaf wrote:
> Hi list.  I'm using the locate command to find some diagnostic software and
> potencial mount points for basic hardware like a floppy drive or a modem.  I
> can find what I want no problem, but I also get a lot of things I don't
> want.  Sometimes screens after screens.  The screens scroll automaticly, and
> I wonder if there's a way to change this.  Failing that, is there a way to
> get at the items at the top of the list without doing a locate and listening
> to the whole thing over.  I've done this 4 or 5 times, and it's starting to
> be counter productive.  I think if I could just stop the scroll where I
> wanted and review the lines I'm interested in, I'd be a little more
> effective.
> Thanks for any advice.
> Erik
> 
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Re: Items fly by

[Ralph W. Reid]

erik burggraaf staggered into view and mumbled:
>
>Hi list.  I'm using the locate command to find some diagnostic software and
>potencial mount points for basic hardware like a floppy drive or a modem.  I
>can find what I want no problem, but I also get a lot of things I don't
>want.  Sometimes screens after screens.  The screens scroll automaticly, and
>I wonder if there's a way to change this.  Failing that, is there a way to
>get at the items at the top of the list without doing a locate and listening
>to the whole thing over.  I've done this 4 or 5 times, and it's starting to
>be counter productive.  I think if I could just stop the scroll where I
>wanted and review the lines I'm interested in, I'd be a little more
>effective.
>Thanks for any advice.
>Erik

Try:
locate <your_stuff> | more
where <your_stuff> is the string you want to use--do not include the
< and > signs.

If you just want to see the top 20 lines, you could pipe it through
`head' instead as follow:
locate <your_stuff> | head -20

or you could redirect the output into a file for later viewing or
editing as follows:
locate <your_stuff> > filename.txt

Have fun!


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Re: Items fly by

[Doug Lawlor]

Try locate file | less This will pipe the output from 'locate' through
less which is a pager which will let you scrole back and forth through
the text as well as do searching.

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Re: Items fly by

[Ari Moisio]

Hi!

  One more tip:

locate string1 | grep -i "string2"

  You'll got only lines containing both string1 and string2.


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Re: Items fly by

[Jude DaShiell]

Sure that's no problem.  do locate x | less.  Once that's done, it scrolls
one screen at a time.  Also, locate x >locate.log, then less locate.log.



On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, erik burggraaf wrote:

> Hi list.  I'm using the locate command to find some diagnostic software and
> potencial mount points for basic hardware like a floppy drive or a modem.  I
> can find what I want no problem, but I also get a lot of things I don't
> want.  Sometimes screens after screens.  The screens scroll automaticly, and
> I wonder if there's a way to change this.  Failing that, is there a way to
> get at the items at the top of the list without doing a locate and listening
> to the whole thing over.  I've done this 4 or 5 times, and it's starting to
> be counter productive.  I think if I could just stop the scroll where I
> wanted and review the lines I'm interested in, I'd be a little more
> effective.
> Thanks for any advice.
> Erik
>
>
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